Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration has just invested $200,000 of American taxpayer money on a transgender app that teaches men how to sound like “women.”
The huge grant was approved by Biden’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) in November.
The grant, first reported by The College Fix, will be used to fund research for the smartphone app.
The funds were approved by the NIH’s Deafness and Other Communication Disorders department.
Vesna Dominika Novak, a transgender associate professor at the University of Cincinnati, will be leading the project.
The NIH approved $213,878 in funding from December 2023 to November 2024 so Novak’s team can create the app.
According to the project details, the app will apparently be used to train biological males who “identify” as transgender “women” to speak like women.
“Transgender and gender diverse people exhibit a significantly lower quality of life than the general public,” the abstract of the grant reads.
“One reason for this is voice dysphoria: distress because a person’s voice does not match their gender identity (e.g., trans women with deep voices).
“Reducing this voice-gender incongruence can improve quality of life, but is difficult to achieve …
“One way to provide more accessible GAVT would be through smartphone- or computer-based software that delivers information about voice, suggests exercises, and provides feedback on exercise performance.”
The abstract also argues that going to speech therapists is “time-consuming [and] costly,” and that there aren’t enough who specialize in “gender-affirming voice and communication training” (GAVT).
Once completed, the app will include “visual-acoustic biofeedback” to tell the user how their voice sounds.
It will then provide suggestions on how to make it “more feminine.”
For the study, 40 biological men, who claim to be “transgender,” will use the researchers’ “prototype” app and meet online every week, according to the grant.
The researchers will prescribe “homework” during the week with ranging levels of difficulty.
“Self-reported amount of daily practice (primary outcome) as well as self-reported self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation scores will be compared between groups,” the abstract reads.
“Upon completion, the project will result in the first GAVT software that combines visual-acoustic biofeedback of pitch and resonance with structured exercises – highly requested but currently unavailable features of such software.”
